总结VOA 07-11-09【慢速七彩魔法球活动136号学员】
Governments may be accused of keeping too many records on their people. But no one seems to argue with recording births, deaths and marriages. This is called civil registration regi*** .
人们有可能会指责政府保存了太多他们的记录，但似乎没一个人对出生、死亡及婚姻的记录提出异议。这些都称为是民事登记。

Birth and death records help governments count populations and know how long people live and what they die from. This information is important for planning schools, hospitals and other services. A birth certificate is also important for another reason. That piece of paper is legal proof that an individual exists.
出生和死亡记录可以帮助政府部门统计人口、了解人们能活多久、死于什么原因。这类信息对学校、医院和其他部门的规划有重要作用。出生证的重要性还有一个原因，即它是证明一个人活在世上的法律依据。

Yet the World Health Organization believes that almost forty percent of all births go unrecorded. It estimates that one hundred twenty-eight million babies are born each year. So one way to look at this is to say that every year closed to fifty million people are denied legal identities. And in the least developed countries the rate could be as high as seventy percent.
世界卫生组织认为近百分之四十的新生儿未做登记。估计每年有一亿二千八百万新生儿出生。从另一方面来看，也就是说每年将近五千万人没有合法的身份。而在最落后的发展中国家，该比率高达百分之七十。

The situation is no better for death records. Every year fifty-seven million people die. But perhaps only one-third of these deaths are counted. The W.H.O., the United Nations health agency, has one hundred ninety-three member states. Yet it receives dependable cause-of-death information from just thirty-one countries.
这种形势不利于每年的死亡统计，每年5,7000,0000的人们死亡，但或许只有三分之一的死亡被统计在内，世界卫生组织联合国卫生代理处有193个成员国，然而只能从31个国家获得可靠的死亡信息.

1 registration n. 登记,挂号,注册
2 identity n. 相同,身分,一致,特性,恒等式
3 dependable a. 可信任的,可靠的,可信赖的